Fitoterapia. 2000 Sep; 71(5): 547-52.

Evaluation of antitumor activity of some medicinal plants of Bangladesh by potato disk bioassay.

Haque N, Chowdhury SA, Nutan MT, Rahman GM, Rahman KM, Rashid MA.

Department of Pharmacology, Bangabandhu Seikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.

The antitumor activity of the ethanolic extracts of 12 medicinal plants of Bangladesh, including the vincristine-vinblastine producing Catharanthus roseus was studied using the potato disk bioassay technique. Among these, 10 plant extracts at 25.0-microgram/disc exhibited significant inhibition of crown gall tumors caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.